Top 55 Quotes & Sayings by Steve Zahn

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Steven James Zahn is an American actor and comedian. His film roles include Reality Bites (1994), That Thing You Do! (1996), Out of Sight (1998), Stuart Little (1999), Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), Stuart Little 2 (2002), Shattered Glass (2003), Sahara (2005), Chicken Little (2005), Rescue Dawn (2007), the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series (2010–2012), Dallas Buyers Club (2013), The Good Dinosaur (2015), Captain Fantastic (2016), and War for the Planet of the Apes (2017). On television, Zahn appeared as Davis McAlary on HBO's Treme (2010–2013), and as Mark Mossbacher in the first season of the HBO satire comedy miniseries The White Lotus (2021), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the film Happy, Texas (1999).

American - Actor | Born: November 13, 1967

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I've never watched an episode of 'Star Trek.' For real.

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I like to fish. I'm an outdoorsman. I love to hunt and fish.

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You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.

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The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

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I gravitate to ensemble comedy.

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You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

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People got to know me very gradually. It was little things. It's still like that. 'That Thing you Do!' was a big thing. It's always been very gradual. Like I say, people still ask me if I'm still acting. 'I've seen all your movies. What are you doing now?' Ha ha!

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Any director who's also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.

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Andy Serkis is one of the best actors I have ever worked with. He might be the best actor I have ever worked with.

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I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.

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I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

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I remember seeing my sister in a play when I was very young, and I remember telling my folks, 'I want to do that.'

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I don't have a publicist.

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I've done movies where they didn't have enough money to have trailers.

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I think, a lot of times in a big city, you're working even when you're not.

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My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.

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I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.

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I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.

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My dad was the chaplain at Mankato State University, and my mom worked in the bookstore. We lived just off-campus. Then we moved to the suburbs of Minneapolis, to New Hope, which is where I went to high school.

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I feed horses and goats and sheep all day and, once in a while, come and talk about movies.

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I'm huge on spring and summer gardening. I'm really proud of my perennial beds. That's a passion of mine.

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PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3.

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I've had more people come up to me about 'Saving Silverman' than anything else. That and 'That Thing You Do!' But 'Saving Silverman' is the one I get most often. And I love that.

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I've never had the luxury - or the nightmare - of having something just blow up and be this huge success and then have everything thrown at you. Being 'the best friend' lessens the responsibility, 'cause I can still go do another movie after something that doesn't do well.

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I never expect anything; I just go make a movie. I do the best I can, and whatever happens, happens.

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Film is a strange thing.

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I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

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I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy.

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I love 'Safe Men.' Now it's getting all this culty kind of - it just came out on DVD. That was awesome. I read that script, I never laughed so hard in my life.

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Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

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I never wanted the business to dictate my life. I'm sure I've sacrificed and missed out on a lot of stuff, but I don't know what that stuff is, so I just raised kids, and I wanted to be around for that.

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I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.

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When I was younger, you get pigeonholed in parts, which is understandable.

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I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

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I'm theater trained.

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I was in high school, and I was the guy that always got cast in the school play. Theater is huge in high school in Minnesota, and I knew that I was very good at that, and gifted, and I was 'the guy,' but it still wasn't something I ever thought of as 'a job' or something that one could do professionally.

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I'm not a leading guy.

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Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway.

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I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

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I was going to be a Marine before I was going to be an actor. I was really serious about joining the Marine Corps.

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I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

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I'm not a sci-fi kind of guy, to be honest.

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I remember seeing 'Les Miserables' with the original cast - this was in '87 - and I was blown away by it.

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I met my wife in 1990 when I was on the national tour of 'Bye, Bye Birdie.'

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It goes all the way back to 'Psycho.' Movies with twists like that are memorable because they're so simple.

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I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

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The werewolf film is a strange thing.

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You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.

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I'm convinced women actually think they can read minds. Like when a woman goes, "I can tell you don't want to hang out with me today." And you're like, "What are you talking about? I actually do!"

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I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.

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I love Toronto, I have spent a lot of time up there working. There's a lot of stuff going on there.

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What's hard in movies is to have a consistent tone throughout a movie. Whatever that is.

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I've done flowers and kicked myself. Flowers are so lame.

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My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched Emergency! and ate cool whip with a spoon.

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You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from Star Search or Survivor or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

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Top 55 Quotes & Sayings by Steve Zahn

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